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Swamp Shark

2011 · 85 min

A silly, cheap creature-feature romp through the bayou, best enjoyed with friends and low expectations.

Directed by
Griff Furst
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Tagline
Fresh water. Fresh meat.
Overview
Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes wrong and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel's "Gator Shack" restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel's "escaped" pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swampshark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel's kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!
How it feels
Campy, absurd, light and tense. Brisk and fine in the background.
About
Survival, family, nature, crime
Content
Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
Note
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Directed by
Griff Furst
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • campystrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror4
Humour5
Realism3
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity2
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
action, adventure, comedy, horror, tv movie
Directed by
Griff Furst
Written by
Charles Bolon, Eric Miller, Jennifer Iwen
Starring
Kristy Swanson, Robert Davi, D. B. Sweeney, Wade Boggs, Sophie Sinise, Jason Rogel, Jeff Chase, Christopher Berry
Music
Andrew Morgan Smith
Cinematography
Lorenzo Senatore
Runtime
85 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
German, English

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